Friday, 26 August 2016

Against The Current - Research


Against The Current are an American pop-rock/pop-punk trio from Poughkeepsie, New York who formed in 2011. The band currently consists of lead vocalist, Chrissy Costanza, guitarist Dan Gow, and drummer Will Ferri. The group started on YouTube and gained a larger audience after posting covers for a variety of popular songs, they have also performed covers with YouTube cover artists such as Sam Tsui and Alex Goot.

The band originally consisted of 4 members, Chrissy Costanza, Dan Gow, Will Ferri and Jeremy Rompala. However Rompala left the band in 2014.

Against The Current released their debut EP 'Infinity' on May 27th 2014, they were not signed at the time so independently release the EP through online distribution. Throughout 2014 the band was touring to support the release of 'Infinity' before going back to the studio to record their next EP 'Gravity'.

'Gravity' was released February 17th 2015 and announced a few weeks after the release that they had been signed to Fueled By Ramen on March 4th 2015. 'Gravity' charted on four Billboard magazine charts, peaking in; Independent Albums, Alternative Albums, Heatseekers Albums and Rock Albums charts.

After touring again they one back to the studio to record their debut full-length album which was released May 20th 2016. The album was titled 'In Our Bones'
'In Our Bones' has been called "Pop-rock perfection" at Alternative Press.

For their debut album, three music videos have been released for, 'Running With The Wild Things, Wasteland and most recently Young and Relentless. These music promos have been a mix of narrative and performance based.

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